Greiner Assistec is one of two business units of Greiner Packaging, a leading European company in the plastics processing industry. We offer our clients development, production, assembly, logistics, andservice from a single source. We concentrate primarily on the areas of Office & Leisure, Home & Garden, Health & Personal Care, Automotive & Commercial Vehicles, and Packaging & Logistics.

Greiner Assistec has six locations in Europe and one in North America. Though firmly embedded in the strong corporate association, Greiner Packaging, Greiner Assistec nevertheless has access to the production network of all Greiner Packaging locations. Our service portfolio is characterized by individual solutions specifically tailored to the requirements of our customers. This means that the focus of our daily activities is on customer orientation and service, thus guaranteeing our customers "their best sourcing solution".

Greiner Packaging

Greiner Packaging

Greiner Packaging is an active global player with 34 locations in 19 countries worldwide. The company has been synonymous for nearly 60 years with high solution competency when it comes to development, design, production, and decoration of plastic products.

The company meets market challenges with two business units: Assistec and Packaging. The Packaging business unit consists of two product groups K and Kavo, which are primarily involved in plastic packaging.

Product Group K

The product group K of the Packaging business unit of Greiner Packaging creates unique packaging advantages in the form of plastic cups and lids. Its diverse offering in the standard and premium range meets consumer needs as well as the demands of customers from the dairy industry and other food sectors. Greiner Packaging’s product group K is Europe’s leading supplier of dairy product packaging.

Product Group Kavo

Product Group Kavo

The product group Kavo of the Packaging business unit creates unique packaging advantages in the form of plastic bottles and containers. Its specialization in customized product solutions allows it to serve the widest imaginable range of markets: foodstuff, healthcare, cosmetics, chemical industry, and custom solutions. It has a wide range of production and decoration technologies to draw on to meet these needs.

Greiner: A global family enterprise

Greiner Packaging, the plastic packaging manufacturer, is one of four branches of the Greiner Group, and as such, can draw on a stable structural and financial network. Greiner was founded in 1868 in Germany and in 1899 in Austria, and has been 100% family owned since its founding. Its continuous growth is based on a factor which makes the company stand out: diversification of products and markets.

The Greiner Group operates more than 130 locations (production and distribution centers). It combines four operative branches (Greiner Packaging, Greiner Bio-One International, Greiner Foam International, and Greiner Extrusion Group) under one roof.

Mold and machine tool suppliers are few and far between in 1961. The plastic packaging company Greiner Packaging therefore decides to take mold and machine tool construction into its own hands. The first products made using its own tools are polystyrene cups for fish marinades and marmalades.

1965

Premiere of thermoforming

The first thermoforming machine at Greiner Packaging begins operations, producing PVC and polystyrene films. The first products produced using thermoforming technology are thin-walled cups for curds, cooked cheese, and clarified butter. Other thermoforming machines are acquired thanks to an initial large order for ice cream cups. Production of the first yogurt cups quickly follows.

1979

A turn toward sustainability

Greiner Packaging closes the plastic circuit with a recycling innovation: Printed plastic waste is mixed, dyed with dark color pigments and processed into flower pots using an injection molding process. Recycled materials are also worked into the middle layer of plastic cups.

1987

Greiner begins generating its own sheets

The plastic packaging supplier Greiner Packaging creates its own multilayer foils for the first time. Regranulated materials are worked into the middle layer.

1988

Increased efficiency and hygiene through automation

For the first time, Greiner Packaging uses an injection molding machine which is capable of automatically packing and counting the manufactured goods. This leads to a sustainable increase in efficiency and hygiene.

1989

Greiner Packaging goes East

The plastic packaging company Greiner Packaging expands into Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the first Austrian companies to do so. These first steps toward expansion take place in Hungary and the Czech Republic.

With the acquisition of a packaging facility in Diepoldsau (Switzerland), the plastic packaging company Greiner Packaging enters into the production of cups made of cardboard-plastic-combinations (K3®).

2000

The Greiner Packaging trademark

The ever-growing Greiner Packaging company fashions a uniform market presence by developing a new corporate identity. The slogan “do the innovation” and the “pack” (a stylized "paper cone” that becomes the trademark for Greiner Packaging) are developed. Greiner Packaging guarantees its customers the “unique packaging proposition.”

2000

Investments in future talent

In the year 2000, the plastic packaging company Greiner Packaging begins its “Greiner Industrial Training” (git) apprenticeship program. The contents of the git program are oriented toward jobs in plastics processing, production engineering, machine tool manufacturing, and electrical equipment engineering, as well as personal development.

2006

The rise of the Assistec Business Unit

The Greiner Assistec Business Unit stems from many years of “technical parts” production. It benefits from an independent market entry with the strong Greiner Packaging network in the background.

2007

The emerging Greiner Assistec St. Gallen location

Greiner Packaging takes on a new location in St. Gallen, Steiermark, Austria, which is exclusively dedicated to the Assistec business unit. This establishes new technologies in the group, such as plate thermoforming and lacquering.

A former cork factory becomes the home of a World of Plastic Products. Since its debut in 2010, Packworld has become an international meeting place of the plastics industry. ”Innovation Day” is held here every year, showcasing the latest trends in the plastics sector.

2010

Greiner Assistec goes West and East

Greiner Packaging opens its first site outside Europe in Monterrey, Mexico. This site will primarily serve customers of Assistec business unit and is targeted toward developing markets in the NAFTA region. That same year, a new Greiner Assistec site is also opened in Březová, Slušovice, the Czech Republic.

2011

Assistec Business Unit conquers Romania

Greiner Packaging invests in the Romanian market. The company buys a plant in Leresti, Romania, which becomes a future center for the plastics processing industry of Assistec business unit. The central location of the site in the country’s interior allows for optimal delivery to the local market as well as to international customers.

2012

Assistec Business Unit develops in Grodzisk, Poland

Greiner Packaging’s location in Grodzisk, which has been part of the Group since 2004, takes on work for the Assistec business unit and responds to Polish customers looking for a competent and reliable partner in the plastics processing industry.

2015 - 2017

Expansion towards Asian market

With joint ventures in Turkey (2015), India (2016) and Russia (2017), Greiner Packaging takes the first step toward markets in the Middle East and Asia. The sites mainly serve customers of the Packaging business unit with high-quality plastic packaging.

Facts

Greiner Packaging International occupies the position of the parent company within the corporate organization, directly holding the production-based affiliates. This simple and transparent corporate structure creates a strong foundation for long-term success.

Our Values

Customer Orientation. Solution Orientation. Trust.

Our Vision

Greiner Assistec is the leading sourcing partner for the international plastics using industry.